Spišská Nová Ves railway station () serves the town and

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Spišská Nová Ves Spišská Nová Ves (; ; ) is a town in the Košice Region of Slovakia. The town is located southeast of the High Tatras in the Spiš region, and lies on both banks of the Hornád River. It is the biggest town of the Spišská Nová Ves Distric ...

, in the

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, eastern

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. Opened in 1871, the station is a

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between the Košice–Žilina railway, which is part of Slovakia's main east–west rail corridor, and a spur line to Levoča. The station is currently owned by

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(ŽSR); train services are operated by

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(ZSSK).

Location

Spišská Nová Ves railway station is situated at J. Fabiniho, northwest of the town centre.

History

The station was opened on 12 December 1871, upon the inauguration of the

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–Spišská Nová Ves section of the

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. Soon afterwards, on 12 March 1872, the next section of that railway was completed, between Spišská Nová Ves and

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. The spur line to Levoča was opened on 8 November 1892. Regular passenger services on the spur line were suspended in February 2003, despite protests from residents and local officials, especially in Levoča. Only a handful of Marian pilgrim trains have operated as passenger trains on the line since then, but freight traffic has continued. On 1 April 2010, a locomotive ran into a stationary passenger train at the station after its brakes failed during a test ride, killing three people and seriously injuring eight others.

Facilities

The double storey

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houses information and ticketing facilities, and a restaurant. The station yard has tracks equipped with low level platforms for passenger services and tracks for freight workings.

Train services

Spišská Nová Ves railway station is the junction of the following Slovakian railway lines: *180 Košice–Žilina (part of the Košice–Bohumín Railway) *186 Spišská Nová Ves–Levoča Line 180 forms part of Pan-European Corridor Va, which runs from

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in Italy to

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in Ukraine, via

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Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

and

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Interchange

The station provides interchange with local buses.

Services

References

Notes

External links

Spišská Nová Ves railway station on vlaky.net
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spisska Nova Ves railway station Spiš Railway stations in Košice Region Railway stations in Slovakia opened in 1871